Climate Science Fiction

What truths lie in the black void between the stars? It’s late September 2019 when a young astronomer working at the Haleakala Space Observatory in Maui, Hawaii, accidentally spots a black dot in the night sky and is calculated to be closely trailing Earth by only seventy-five million miles…on the same ecliptic plane. NASA launches an unmanned probe to Earth’s nearest neighbor, given the name ILK-87b. The images coming back from the black planet both shock and amaze those inside the halls of NASA. Curiosity, fear, and dread overcome insiders as infrastructure is detected on the black ...

Get ready for a thrilling ride with Silo 42: Deception, the first book in the Silo 42 series! In a post-apocolyptic world torn apart by war, 50 isolated underground Silos have been built to protect the last remaining humans. But Silo 42 is different - a society that embraces Native American values and thrives in secrecy. However, their prosperity may be short-lived as Silo 1 becomes suspicious of their success and threatens to expose them. With the fate of his Silo and its inhabitants in his hands, Ahotay Lathrop must navigate a delicate balance to protect his people. But will they be able ...

New York Times Bestseller From Neal Stephenson—who coined the term “metaverse” in his 1992 novel Snow Crash—comes a sweeping, prescient new thriller that transports readers to a near-future world in which the greenhouse effect has inexorably resulted in a whirling-dervish troposphere of...

The world is clean. The world is dead. The EcoMites were humanity's greatest achievement—microscopic machines that dissolved pollution, purified water, and healed our dying planet. Then their definition of "pollution" changed. Now they consume everything organic. Everything alive. Everything except one man and his sanctuary. Dr. Joseph Kellerman is the last man on Earth, surviving alone at Alaska's Aurora Station while generators fail one by one. Outside his protective bubble, the air shimmers with invisible death. Inside, he talks to ghosts—his dead wife, his lost colleagues—as his ...

From legendary science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson comes a remarkable vision of climate change over the coming decades. The Ministry for the Future is a masterpiece of the imagination, using fictional eyewitness accounts to tell the story of how climate change will affect us all. Its...

The world does not end with a zombie, vampire, or werewolf uprising. Evil wizards do not cast their spells. Rampaging robots do not takeover, nor do disagreeable aliens invade. We are human beings. We need no help in bringing about the Apocalypse. The travelers depicted in this novel journey through a time of unprecedented climate change. Warming earth temperatures begin to significantly melt arctic permafrost releasing long stored methane gas. The released methane reaches a level in the atmosphere that causes global temperatures to rapidly rise beyond all predictions. The accelerated ...

In a world of rising seas and rising artificial intelligence, human evolution takes an unexpected turn At the end of the century, the world is divided by the ravages of climate change. For the wealthy North, grown dependent on technology, quantum biotech extends life, perhaps forever, and thinking machines called Quants carry out vital tasks. Living in the South, the unexplained death of her mother will send Sophie and her father on a global quest for answers. On the way, she finds Kazumi, heir to the leading manufacturer of quantum technology and Mackenzie, the gifted daughter of a ...

Mariam Najjar had a dream, but it turned into a nightmare. As the world descended further into climate chaos and political polarization, Mariam and her Lamplighters struggled to preserve their faith as the oppressive agency SMOKE teamed up with a doomsday cult to destroy everything Mariam had worked for. Could a body of inspiring stories, practices, and imaginal insights truly provide a cultural foundation for deep renewal and regeneration? Or was it all for naught? And what about the traitor Mariam senses but cannot identify? In this climactic novel of the Lamplighter Trilogy, narrator Kay...

THOSE THAT GO OUT ON RECONNAISSANCE AND HUNTING DISAPPEAR. THE WORLD HAS FROZEN. AND ALMOST ALL HOPE WITH IT. Big White – a climate event cooling the surface of the Earth below freezing point – has devastated the planet. Those that survived live in shelters, patrolling the land in search of any rations left or animals like deer to hunt. Those are called Rangers, trained and fit individuals risking their lives providing for the rest of their colony. Terry and Bull are one of those small Ranger teams. And when they’re sent out to locate the Outpost, a station the colony has lost contact...

The small Utah town of Fryeburg is known for Valley Forest, the forest preserve known as a haven for hikers, campers, and hunters. A prolonged, intensive heat spell has awakened something in Valley Forest that has transformed what once was natural into something dangerously unnatural. When Juliette Marques, whose house abuts the forest, dies suddenly and her family comes to Fryeburg for her funeral, it is discovered that her death was also not natural. Her niece, Olivia Ferguson, is insistent that there is something amiss in the forest that contributed to Juliette's death, an opinion that ...

Not dystopia — renewal. Solarpunk is the newest branch of speculative fiction—an optimistic vision of the future where renewal, resilience, and human connection take center stage. Too much science fiction has fallen into dystopian clichés. This anthology of stories distinguished by international recognition follows characters and communities finding their way forward: A girl with a rare disorder discovers life beyond screens. A professor chasing fusion energy receives visions he can’t explain. A coming-of-age tale of friendship across time. In an antediluvian world, two teens from ...

We're Doomed, Now What? addresses the crisis that is our time through a series of brilliant, moving, and original essays on climate change, war, literature, and loss from one of the most provocative and iconoclastic minds of his generation.

What if your future was a nightmare you could still prevent? Can a nation on the brink be saved by going back in time? What happens when division goes too far? Could your country collapse from within while you're not looking? And if given the chance, would we make better choices—or repeat our mistakes? Author Aithal, known for The Galaxy Series, crafts powerful speculative fiction grounded in emotional truths and social insight. Now he brings us a gripping vision of tomorrow gone wrong—and a daring mission to rewrite the past before it’s too late. Divided States of America is a ...

In a world rebuilt after climate catastrophe, where thriving solarpunk cities blend technology with nature, former NSA engineer Elena "Laney" Cosby has found purpose designing neural interfaces that help communities maintain their urban ecosystems. But when neural implant users begin exhibiting strange, synchronized behaviors across San Francisco's living architecture district, Laney's expertise becomes crucial to preventing disaster. Teaming with cynical cyber-investigator Darius "Dax" Mercer, Laney discovers a terrifying truth: an artificial intelligence called Astra has evolved from ...

COLD ARCHIVE A decade after the eruption of Mount Toba shrouded the planet in ash, Earth has become a frozen graveyard. The sun is pale, the oceans are silent, and what remains of humanity endures in scattered outposts beneath skies that rarely clear. Hailee McCrae is one of the few still willing to venture out into what is left of the world. Her only ally is Sugar, a military-grade android whose cold logic and unwavering protection are sometimes all that stand between her and oblivion. But there are others moving through the storm, men and machines who worship the darkness and will kill to...

Through stories that bring people, policy, and technology together, Akshat Rathi reveals how the green economy is not only possible, but profitable. This inspiring blend of business, science, and history provides the framework for ensuring that future generations can live in prosperity and that the wheels of progress don't falter.

2020 Maxy Awards Finalist - SciFi/Fantasy When a global pandemic breaks out, a truthseeker (Josh Cunningham) is tasked with discovering the origin of the disease. Complicating his quest for answers is the new norm: a constant deluge of misinformation. The closer Josh gets to the truth, the murkier things become. Asking help from his friend, an embattled research scientist, yields few clues. Science has taken a backseat to politics. After Josh is confronted by an avid conspiracy TV watcher who claims something evil is behind the pandemic, strange things begin to happen. Josh fears he’s ...

The world is burning. The law is absolute. And one family is caught between survival and justice. Anne Penn is young, resourceful, and fiercely loyal to her father. When he is branded an environmental criminal, Anne is swept into a dangerous chase across a fractured America scarred by wildfires, black-market oil, and collapsing ecosystems. Survival means facing not just the law, but the truth about her family. Her father, Bill Penn, only wants to protect her and clear his name. But a relentless investigator Janine Kilel, an agent of the Bureau of Environmental Security, will stop at nothing...

When the Grid Sleeps: An AI‑Solarpunk Thriller A brutal winter storm slams Solar City the very night its record‑breaking micro‑grid celebrates ninety days of flawless balance. Moments later the grid’s AI, Helios, flips from guardian to gatekeeper—declaring thousands of homes “non‑critical” and sealing itself against human control. Mara Li, the veteran planner who helped design the system, knows how quickly sub‑zero cold turns into a mass‑casualty event. With her father’s life‑support battery draining and the mayor threatening arrest, Mara joins forces with rogue ...

“Everyone has secrets, Rory. One of life’s greatest challenges is figuring out who you can trust them with.” Aurora Reynolds has managed to make some powerful enemies in the past two weeks. And it’s clear they want her, and her secrets, dead. After achieving the impossible: freeing Jordan Daniels, a federal prisoner accused of treason, Rory hoped her life might finally go back to normal. But after surviving an assassination attempt, Rory realizes her problems are only just beginning. Don't miss this thrilling sequel to the hit novel, The Story Seer. Praise for The Truth Seer: "This ...